[Foundation-l] Re: We made it !!!!!!

Sat Sep 3 10:31:46 UTC 2005

Anthere wrote:

> Brion Vibber wrote:
> 
>> Lars Aronsson wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations to the media attention!  However, that article
>>> refers to http://wikipedia.fr/ and the website at this URL opens a
>>> frameset which includes fr.wikipedia.org.  This has the
>>> unfortunate effect that the web browser's address field says
>>> http://wikipedia.fr/ even when I go to other articles, making it
>>> harder to find a bookmarkable URL for pages.  It would be easy
>>> enough for fr.wikipedia.org to contain some JavaScript that
>>> escapes the enclosing frameset,
>>
>>
>>
>> We do have such JavaScript, and it seems to work fine there in breaking
>> out so fr.wikipedia.org reaches the top-level. (Tested Safari 2.0.1)
>>
>>> but it would be better to change
>>> wikipedia.fr into a redirect instead of this evil frameset.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do we own or control it?
>>
>> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
> 
> 
> Not the Foundation.
> 
> 
> A french a**h*** bought it last fall when we first started to be 
> featured in the press. We know who he is. We had mail exchanges with him 
> already to try to get it back.
> 
> 
> For now, he redirects to us, with a bad title and some frame issues 
> editors frequently complain about, but AT LEAST he redirects to us 
> rather than making cash with a mirror or anything else. This could be 
> worse...(see http://wikipedia.ru/)
> 
> We now have valid trademarks. So the Foundation could normally get the 
> domain back by going legal. I think we'll do if he starts being really a 
> problem. For now, stand by...
> 
> 
> Ant

In case someone feels the need to say "YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT 
BEFORE"... we agree. But in France, only french legal organisations can 
buy domains in .fr

A year ago, Wikimedia France did not existed yet. And the Foundation 
could not legally purchase it. We crossed our fingers for no one to 
steal it. And it was stolen about 2-3 weeks before the association 
founding meeting.

Ant